OT: Blackberry Issues
While wasting away time at work, I noticed my Blackberry Tour is constantly "searching for network." E-mail and text messages will flood my mailbox every 30-45 minutes. I work right by Wolverine Tower in Ann Arbor and was curious if anyone has had any connection trouble today or if this in an isolated incident.
Obviously a very stressful Monday for me at work. Thanks for the help!
I can't download my Bieber Fever app. FML.
nope, my storm is fine today. I cannot wait to get rid of this piece of crap for the droid 2.
My HTC Droid Incredible. It arrives sometime this week. I've got a Curve right now, and its a piece of crap, too. I was really torn whether to get a Tour, (my company is exclusive to BlackBerry for corporate email and directory services) but the Droids are just too nice.
FYI: I also tried out a Storm 2 at the Verizon store, and I couldn't believe that a product that bad made it out of development. BB must have been desperate for a touch screen phone.
I have the storm2. I had the original storm for a week before the storm2 was released. If you think the storm2 is bad you have never tried a storm. At least with storm2 they doubled the RAM. Even still I have to do a battery pull at least every other day as my phone freezes up.
My Curve does the same thing. It drives me crazy. First time it happened, I didn't know what was going on. Then, I realized it will reset itself for no good reason from time to time, as well.
it may have to be with certain apps getting hung up in an endless loop, although I'm not sure why. That doesn't happen too often with my company-issued 8830 (yeah, that's right - I'm still using an 8830; don't laugh too hard), but often enough that it annoys me. The other thing I find happening is that apps don't always "turn off" making my battery run down completely in less than a day. This has happened with the following: google maps, facebook, yahoo, and a couple others. I've either deleted and reinstalled (google maps) or just deleted altogether (FB, yahoo).
My company was recently acquired, though, so I'm hopeful our new overlords will let us get some better phones.
I also believe it has to do with low amount of RAM installed on these things. 256 mb is not enough memory to run the OS, mail, phone, web browser (which is by far the worst browser I have ever come across), facebook, and BBM. There are numerous memory leaks to. I can watch my app memory slowly deplete itself over a couple of days.
My cousin for whatever reason loves the tour. I on the other hand, cannot wait for my every two discount to get rid of this POS.
I am the not-so-proud owner of a Storm for the past 13 months. My first one died about 4 months ago when the screen just flat-out stopped working, but at least was able to get a replacement for free. Of course within a week it was running like absolute crap again.
I can't wait to get rid of this damn thing when my contract is up.
Are you in Saudi Arabia or the UAE?
edit: I read good.
I live in Caledonia (SE GR) and have fairly decent service here with my Tour. However, I can never get a single email to come through to the phone when I receive it. It's usually like the OP described as they come 5-10 at a time. I can't wait to get rid of mine as well.
No problems with my Storm, other than the fact that it is, indeed, a BlackBerry Storm.
the next 'generation' of the OS, OS6, is built on the same crappy java under-pinnings as the one you are complaining about.
keep your eyes peeled tomorrow a.m. b/c they are going to try to dupe people into thinking they actually have a new OS......
if RIM doesn't have a real update to their current OS aleady most of the way through development, starting with a complete re-write rather than basing it on the old codebase, a version that can actually compete with iphone or android, then I would say they are not long for this world.
Windows mobile 7 could take away a lot of their enterprise share after it releases this fall and obviate the need for RIM server technology and microsoft can spend some time evolving it to the point where it is competitive with android and iPhone (maybe, someday, could happen...) on a pure consumer basis.
honestly, microsoft has suffered long term damaging PR with the failure of windows mobile, the Kin, and the Zune. I would be very surprise if microsoft even approaches 10% of the smartphone market share with the release of windows 7 mobile.
August 3rd, 2010 at 11:36 AM ^
I'm talking over the next 2 years or so. When businesses start to compare just flipping a switch on an Outlook server to provide secure email rather than purchasing and maintaining a separate server from RIM/Blackberry, some will just make the decision to go that way....how many is anybodies guess.
Preliminary reviews are that the new WinMo 7 is much better than the old one, however still not in the same class as a consumer OS that iPhone, Android and WebOS occupy. It is primarily geared toward creating a viable alternative for enterpise customers and will be very good at doing all the email/calendar/doc share stuff that will make it a good alternative for large companies that need that.
I think then that MS will spend time catching up and build on the Zune UI they are using now in W7 to build a viable consumer platform to comnpete across the board.
I'm not saying they will own the world, but they have a much brighter future as a player than RIM.
Get an Android phone. With the release of the Galaxy S, there is now a high end Android phone available on every network.
August 3rd, 2010 at 11:28 AM ^
Can't wait for the Galaxy S Pro on Sprint, that is the reason I didn't get the Evo. It has it's own graphics accelerator and quite honestly the nicest 480x800 AMOLED screen I have ever seen.